Our good buddy Sampsa and his companion Stummerwinter came, saw and conquered. The set a new world record for 3DMark vantage (performance mode) which is now set at P47002 !

In order to do so they of course had vanilla picked samples of everything including a Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, four ASUS ATI Radeon HD 5870 in CrossFireX mode, 6 GB of Corsair Dominator GTX2, and the unreleased ASUS Rampage III Extreme motherboard.

Then they started overclocking with the help of liquid nitrogen, the Core i7 975 XE processor got to 5508.9 MHz (27 x 204 MHz @ 1.664V, HTT on), and the memory at 2040 MHz DDR (7-8-7-21).

To get the best scores, check this out -- four ASUS Radeon HD 5870 cards were hand-picked from a batch of 18 pieces. Core/memory speeds of 1325 MHz / 1300 MHz, were set.

They achieved a 3DMark Vantage score of P47002, with a GPU score of 53,911 points, and CPU score of 33,949.

Meanwhile Guru3D has shipped out a processor to  Dutch overclocker "Old Scarface" to set a new world record with some LN2 (more on that next month!).

Of course in our forums you guys should follow Guru3D's own Beaux Loy aka Bodar who's on a mission as well. He has his score up-to 38572 in the P score already and hopefully soon we can supply him some new kit to improve that score even further. Oh and mind you that Bodar is using regular retail kit, nothing hand-picked and is doing it all without support from vendors at home with his stash of LN2.

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